A warm and witty tale of chance encounters and strangers who become family

Sebastian Wilson wasn’t aspiring to be anybody’s hero – he just wanted to be an actor. Instead, while pretending to be an Irish busker, he drifts through Islington on charm, chance, and an inability to face himself. Somehow, changing lives as he goes.

Fiona Ellery didn’t plan to fall for any man who might stir feelings and then disappear – unlike her best friend Charlotte, who keeps herself too busy for ugly truths.

Rosie worries she might be as lonely as her unusual son, Magpie.

And Dame Joan Delaney certainly didn’t intend to adopt a grown man with a trust fund.

But life rarely consults the script – especially when Romeo the cat wanders in, a tiny agent of chaos.